Investment portfolio

The UK Commission has so far invested £111m in 124 projects with 36 different organisations.

Our £111m investment has been matched by £103m of employer investment. All of our investment is aimed at driving a positive shift in employers’ attitudes to investing in skills.

Use the links below to view our current investment portfolio. You can view by project title, fund, Sector Skills Council, or sector.

Please note: the information on this website only relates to those Employer Investment Fund and Growth and Innovation Fund investments managed by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. For information on the National Skills Academy and Joint Investment Programme investments managed by the Skills Funding Agency please visit the GIF pages on the Skills Funding Agency’s website.


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  • Active Professionals

    2 Aug 2012

    SkillsActive is establishing professional registration across specific sub-sectors and occupations to help employers to further professionalise their businesses.

  • Agilisys

    15 Feb 2013

    Agilisys working with other sector employers such as Google as well as partners from the skills industry including Sector Skills Councils, awarding bodies and colleges, local authorities and organisations in the third sector including the Charity Technology Trust, are leading the transformation of how skills are developed and deployed in the rapidly growing digital marketing industry.

  • AJ Woods

    22 Feb 2013

    A group of local SMEs realised that unless they address recruitment and training issues quickly, local firms will lose out on a once-in-a-generation opportunity to generate new private sector growth and employment.

  • AkzoNobel

    22 Feb 2013

    AkzoNobel are developing a new range of learning products and qualifications tailored towards business need, ease of delivery, value for money and the benefit to the wider local economy.

  • AmbITion

    30 Jun 2011

    This e-skills UK project will create an improved pipeline of talent into the IT industry.

  • Anglia Farmers – EDGE (Educate, Develop, Grow and Employ) Apprentices in Food & Farming

    19 Aug 2013

    The project will work with existing collaborative business structures to address the shortage of trained employees available to the industry.

  • Arla Foods

    12 Feb 2013

    UK dairy employers want the industry to be the most competitive in Europe. In order to achieve this, employers have identified the common vision ‘An industry where learning drives sustainable success’.

  • Asset Skills – The Youth Employment Charter

    15 Aug 2013

    The project will develop, trial and launch a Youth Employment Charter for the sector.

  • Asset Skills: Increasing Employer Investment in Higher level skills

    5 Jan 2012

    Asset skills is looking to increase employer investment in and the take up of higher level skills programmes across the cleaning and housing sector.

  • Asset Skills: Intelligence to maximise skills investment and career opportunities

    5 Jan 2012

    Asset Skills are to maintain a rolling programme of action research and an on-going review of the strategic business plan.

  • Asset Skills: Routes To Employment

    21 Dec 2011

    The project will link the UK wide Department for Work and Pensions Work Programme with employment opportunities in cleaning, facilities management and parking together with a training intervention (funded through the Work Programme).

  • Asset Skills: Talent Management

    5 Jan 2012

    This project will develop and pilot talent management models with employers. The proposal will implement a programme of business to business mentoring and support across the sector.


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